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...leaving more than 10 million unemployed. In France the rate is 8.7% (up from 7.5% in December 1980), in Italy 9.1% (up from 8.3%). In West Germany the figure is 7.3%, the highest since 1956. After the announcement last week that the unemployment rate for Britain and Northern Ireland had reached 12.7%-which meant a record 3 million out of work-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was greeted in the House of Commons with opposition cries of "Resign! Resign...
...Lorean Motor Co. (price tag: $25,000). De Lorean, however, had not reckoned on the continued disastrous slump in U.S. auto sales. Since last June, only half of the 7,000 De Loreans shipped to the U.S. from the company's manufacturing site in Belfast, Northern Ireland, have been sold. As a result, the company faces a severe cash squeeze...
...article "Some Bones of Contention," wrote to ask [Jan. 11], "If white men wanted to learn about their own history, would they dig up Arlington National Cemetery?" The answer is yes-if anything could be learned. White men have been unearthing the bones of their ancestors for decades: in Ireland, in Greece and in Egypt, just to name a few areas...
...recover the old self painted over by fame and notoriety-to become a virgin again. Here, he shows as much interest in society as sexuality. The English, he says, "want their jobs to be boring so that they can strike." An overnight Americanophile, he finds Los Angeles "a happy Ireland." On a Broadway director: He is the "very model of a modern millionaire; that is to say that he dresses for all occasions like a college student." On gay activists: "Anyone who demands acceptance places himself in the same position as a girl who asks, 'Do you really love...
Prime Minister Menachem Begin tells a cheering Israeli Parliament that he has decided to annex Northern Ireland, El Salvador and Poland. "We don't have troubles enough of our own," the grinning chief executive proclaims...